Mrs. Baine
Allow me to introduce myself.
Nothing quite says a motherhood blog like going to check your “launch” blog to see that it is not there even though this was the first blog post you wrote and saved 19 times and the essence of what you wanted your blog to be. No no no. It is all fine. I promise it is fine. I shed a tear and then realized much like motherhood nothing turns out like you think it will and that if I am truly dedicated to starting my blog I should be able to bust this thing out.
SO HERE I AM! Hello EVERYBODY! (christmas vacation reference if you don’t get it) My name is Jessica Noel Baine. I was once a Stearns and went by several different nicknames. I am originally from Marion, IL (go wildcats). If you know you know! I graduated in 2008 from Marion High School. I legit hated high school so I will BREEZE right on by that chapter in my life. I went to Saint Louis University where I majored in Nursing, took a victory lap and had a lot of fun being a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. After graduation my best friend and I took the leap and moved to Dallas, Texas where I had literally the most fun two years of my life. I had the most fun waitressing job at one of the top grossing bars in Texas and I also started my love of pediatric nursing at Dallas Children’s in the Hematology/Oncology unit. I learned a lot about myself and really figured out what I needed to do with my life. After a minor quarter life crisis. I moved home for summer and that is when my childhood best friend became my boyfriend and because I do nothing easy I moved to Nashville for a year to work in the PICU at Vanderbilt. After my stint there I moved in with Alex in Carbondale and I began driving back and forth to St. Louis to work at Children’s. After a long 18 months of being a commuter (LOL) I quit bedside because I had been enrolled in graduate school and needed to complete by clinical hours. We married in September of 2017, found out I was pregnant April of 2018 and welcomed little E on December 26th, 2018. I graduated from my Master’s program in May 2018 and started work as a Nurse Practitioner at a Same Day Clinic in September of this year. Shortly after starting a job and becoming a working mother I realized this shit was not easy. I miss my baby but I love working. How can I feel so guilty yet feel so fulfilled at the same time? Through all of this my husband would always encourage me to start a blog and share my experiences of being a nurse, nurse practitioner student, a wife and now a new mom. He would encouraged me to to share what I was going through and share the information that I felt like wasn’t provided to new moms. So here I am wanting to share the clothes I wear when not in lululemon, my struggles, my triumphs, what works well for me as a mom, products we love and more. I hope yall stick around for the “it’s all fine” moments. and enjoy! I hope you all subscribe to my podcast channel and follow along on instagram.
